Artist	Song
The Exciters	Doo Wah Diddy [Diddy] (Manfred Mann)
Jackie DeShannon	Needles And Pins (The Searchers)
The Isley Brothers	Twist And Shout (The Beatles)
Irma Thomas	Time Is On My Side (The Rolling Stones)
Evie Sands	I Can't Let Go (The Hollies)
The Shirelles	Baby, It's You (The Beatles)
Bessie Banks	Go Now (The Moody Blues)
Barry Mann	We've Gotta Get Out Of This Place (The Animals)
Earl-Jean	I'm Into Something Good - (Herman's Hermits)
The Drifters	Sweets For My Sweet (The Searchers)
The Shirelles	Boys (The Beatles)
Betty Everett	You're No Good (The Swinging Blue Jeans)
The Valentinos	It's All Over Now (The Rolling Stones)
Sam Cooke	Bring It On Home To Me (The Animals)
Jackie DeShannon	When You Walk In The Room (The Searchers)
The Cookies	Chains (The Beatles)
Maxine Brown	Oh No, Not My Baby (Manfred Mann)
The Contours	Do You Love Me? (Dave Clark Five)
Barbara Lewis	Someday We're Gonna Love Again (The Searchers)
Nina Simone	Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood (The Animals)
Smokey Robinson & The Miracles	You've Really Got A Hold On Me (The Beatles)
Maurice Williams & The Zodiacs	Stay (The Hollies)
The Clovers	Love Potion Number Nine (The Searchers)
The Marvelettes	Please, Mr Postman (The Beatles)
Patti Labelle & The Bluebelles	Groovy Kind Of Love (The Mindbenders)
The Shirelles	Sha La La (Manfred Mann)
Sam Cooke	Wonderful World (Herman's Hermits)
Barrett Strong	Money (The Beatles)
Chuck Berry	Come On (The Rolling Stones)
Chan Romero	The Hippy Hippy Shake (The Swinging Blue Jeans)

Comment:

Help - I seem to be stuck in the Sixties at the moment! Ah well, while I'm here... it's always confounded me (speaking as a Brit) that the British Beat groups took America by storm in the early/mid-Sixties and helped kill off most of the 'native talent' - especially when so much of the material the British Beat groups performed was borrowed from those same American artists! This CD was my attempt to prove this point to one of my brothers and also to redress the balance by paying tribute to the people who brought these songs to life in the first place. This is essentially two mixes running side by side (I've actually done this as a 2-CD collection in the past - the same songs in the same order but disc one with the American originals and disc two with the British covers for direct comparison) which meant that I had to mix the running order around quite a lot in order to keep the same artists spread out on both discs! Most of these records were hits in the U.S. for the British groups but I make no apologies for having included some songs which were only covered on album by The Beatles and The Rolling Stones since they spearheaded the 'invasion' and therefore deserved to feature prominently. I should also point out that a few selections (e.g. "Can't Let Go", "You're No Good", and "Oh No, Not My Baby") were big hits in the UK for the artists who covered them and so are still examples of groups that were part of 'The British Invasion' reworking American material, even if they didn't enjoy the same chart success in the U.S. with those particular songs! Also, if I'm going to get fussy about this (...and let's face it - I AM) I should mention that The Isley Brothers version of "Twist And Shout" was not technically the 'original' (which was by Derek Martin's Top Notes) but this was clearly the version which inspired The Beatles' cover! Like a lot of the CDs I put together this seems to be part musical mix and part music-history essay - but it's all great music either way!

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